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02853aam a2200445 i 4500 001 DC2FFCEE214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 180205t20182017nyu b 001 0beng d 020 $a 1631494899 020 $a 9781631494895 035 $a (OCoLC)1021809858 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDXIT $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d YBM $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d MUU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 050 4 $a PT2051 $b .S2413 2018 082 04 $a 831/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Safranski, RuÌdiger, $e author. 245 10 $a Goethe : $b life as a work of art / $c RuÌdiger Safranski ; translated by David Dollenmayer. 264 1 $a New York, N.Y. : $b Liverwright Publishing Corporation, $c 2018. 300 $a xxviii, 651 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Translated from the German. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and -- as Rudiger Safranksi emphasizes -- a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe's entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a "fresh and authentic" (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending "artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings" of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, "[Safranski's] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy" of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe's greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life 600 10 $a Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, $d 1749-1832. 600 17 $a Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, $d 1749-1832. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029788 650 0 $a Authors, German $y 18th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, German $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 6 $a EÌcrivains allemands $y 18e sieÌcle $v Biographies. 650 6 $a EÌcrivains allemands $y 19e sieÌcle $v Biographies. 650 7 $a Authors, German. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00822051 648 7 $a 1700-1899 $2 fast 655 2 $a Biography 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf 700 1 $a Dollenmayer, David B., $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724074143.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC2FFCEE214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search